Execution of Tommy Sells

Forty-nine-year-old Tommy Lynn Sells is scheduled for execution in Huntsville today for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old South Texas girl in 1999.

Sells attorneys are making a plea to the U-S Supreme Court following a federal appeals court allowing the execution to be carried out on schedule. Sells’ attorneys are challenging the state’s refusal to give out information about where it obtains its lethal injection drug.